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DNA Cages with Icosahedral Symmetry in Bionanotechnology (2009)
Book Chapter
Jonoska, N., Taormina, A., & Twarock, R. (2009). DNA Cages with Icosahedral Symmetry in Bionanotechnology. In A. Condon, D. Harel, & J. Kok (Eds.), Algorithmic bioprocesses (141-158). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88869-7_9

Blueprints for polyhedral cages with icosahedral symmetry made of circular DNA molecules are provided. The basic rule is that every edge of the cage is met twice in opposite directions by the DNA strand(s), and vertex junctions are realized by a set... Read More about DNA Cages with Icosahedral Symmetry in Bionanotechnology.

DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry (2009)
Journal Article
Grayson, N., Taormina, A., & Twarock, R. (2009). DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry. Theoretical Computer Science, 410(15), 1440-1447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2008.12.005

A construction method for duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry made out of single-stranded DNA molecules is presented and applied to an icosidodecahedral cage. It is shown via a mixture of analytic and computer techniques that there exist... Read More about DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry.

Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: a top-down approach (2009)
Journal Article
Peeters, K., & Taormina, A. (2009). Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: a top-down approach. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 256(4), 607-624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.10.019

We explore the use of a top-down approach to analyse the dynamics of icosahedral virus capsids and complement the information obtained from bottom-up studies of viral vibrations available in the literature. A normal mode analysis based on protein ass... Read More about Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: a top-down approach.

Liouville Theory and Elliptic Genera (2009)
Journal Article
Taormina, A. (2009). Liouville Theory and Elliptic Genera. Progress of theoretical physics. Supplement, 177(Supplement 1), 203-217. https://doi.org/10.1143/ptps.177.203

The structure and modular properties of N = 4 superconformal characters are reviewed and exploited, in an attempt to construct elliptic genera-like functions by decompactifying K3. The construction is tested against expressions obtained in the contex... Read More about Liouville Theory and Elliptic Genera.